steven
@stevenwatts
assistant professor of heathcliff the cat studies; writing about how books represent accumulation, growth, and their counterparts.
I've received word that my article on The Wallcreeper is now available online. I'm really excited to have this be readable. Huge shoutout to @seanobrien.bsky.social for his tireless editorial work to make my thoughts visible for others. Also to @samcohen.bsky.social and @thathoberekguy.bsky.social
As this photo shows, I had the time of my life and got paid for performing grateful dead covers for septuagenarians cycling through Nebraska and thus am now a professional musician who will be getting paid again for performing grateful dead covers at a sexagenarian's birthday party on Saturday
please, enroll in my class. we're going to have a Stukent Business Communication Simternship and it will be auto-graded
I've never encountered a book that took me longer to read on a per page basis than The Aesthetics of Resistance vol. 1, but I've finally finished it. On to vol. 2
this specific bit changed how I think about politics, protest, literature, and pretty much everything. I paraphrase it in every course I teach and everything I write
cannot put this novel, about a hedge fund manager who finds a love of the sea and quits his hedge fund to invest in freight shipping BY a hedge fund manager who left that job to invest in freight shipping, down for even a second
vol 2 is about how knowing about and acting on the knowledge of climate change is futile in an economy that doesn't change & about how grad school steals years from you
should have been grading but instead I spent 3 hours learning what linear regression is and how to do it in python